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单词 lodger
释义
lodger
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlɒdʒ.ər/us
/ˈlɑː.dʒɚ/
(USalsoroomer)
someone whopaysfor aplacetosleep, and usually formeals, in someone else'shouse:
寄宿者，房客
Shetakesinlodgers to make someextramoney.她接收房客以便挣点外快。
Synonym
boarder(IN SCHOOL/HOUSE)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People who live or settle somewhere
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  • Georgian
  • guest worker
  • habitant
  • illegal alien
  • occupier
  • Orcadian
  • outflow
  • overspill
  • repeople
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  • villager
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Renting property
(Definition oflodgerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflodger

lodger
The house consisted of two rooms, and was inhabited by two families and alodger.
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At the same time, there was a greater readiness to shelter old women in family arrangements to avoid seeing them live as borders or lodgers.
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Inhyses were landless dependent people whose status was very much the same as that of alodgeror a cottar.
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Some could also be worker families who lived as inmates (lodgers) and paid rent in some form.
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Additional sources of income were required, and these included contributions by women through in-migration of their relations and sub-letting accommodation to lodgers.
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At the end of the 1940s, every sixth person in an old people's home was such alodger.
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There were no lodgers in any of the households for which rent information was available.
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This mobility generally made it easier for outsiders or lodgers to acquire a house.
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Small houses and large families meant that there was little possibility of taking in kin or lodgers.
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The eight patients who could not be traced had mainly been lodgers at the address given or had been living in multi-occupied houses.
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Within this group there was a high proportion of lodgers, some two-family households and evidence of possible family ties between neighbours.
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Although still legally minor, they occupied adult positions in the labour force and lived independently (as boarders or lodgers).
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Two other women spent their last years as dependent lodgers and the last lived with a nephew and his family.
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We have, however, excluded servants, lodgers, boarders and visitors from the tables.
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How did space and form articulate relationships between the different constituents of the family, including apprentices, servants and lodgers?
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